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TOBACCO-PirES, CIGARS, ETC. 



English pipe-makers have made few attempts to 

 rival the artistic powers of the Continental fabricants ; 

 but they may be fairly said to beat them in grotesque 

 design. Some few years ago the seaport towns exhi- 

 bited several of these quaint imaginings, which almost 

 equal German Diablerie. 

 They are covered with var- 

 nish colour. One of these 

 represents a horrible blue 

 demon, whose wooden leg 

 forms the funnel for smok- 

 ing, the bent leg acts as a 

 handle for the smoker to 

 hold the pipe; the same of- 

 fice being performed by the 

 leg of the other figure, who receives the tobacco in his 

 wide mouth. Another English pipe, carefully coloured 



throughout, is made in the form of a crocodile, and 

 is fit for the mouth of any imitative demon at a mas- 

 querade. Another is ingeniously made in the form of 

 a hammer, and its perfect truthfulness may rival the 

 French broom. Others of English manufacture, but 

 much ruder in style, have grotesque heads turning at 



